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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:42:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001151939100.81408-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <200001141825.KAA18379@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jim Shankland wrote:

:By the way, I also struck out with DOS fdisk:  it took one look
:at the garbage partition table, and wedged.  I'll be trying a
:Linux rescue disk next.  If that fails, too, then I seem to
:have generated a 1-Gigabyte hockey puck (you didn't think I
:was trying this with a new disk, did you)?

If it were SCSI I'd say plug it in to the nearest adaptec controller and
low level it (I fixed a drive one of my SGI's ate like this), but it's
IDE.  You might want to give NT or OS/2 a whack at it if you've got them
laying around.  There are programs to let you low level IDE drives out
there, I believe they're mostly DOS based though, so that probably doesn't
help.

Jamie Bowden

-- 

"Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, 
Microsoft is different from any other software company..."
Kenneth G. Cavness



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